explosion in nuclear power plant in France

One person was killed and four others were seriously injured by the explosion which occurred a few hours ago and the fire that followed the nuclear plant Marcoulis,in southern France, a nuclear plant 56 years and one of the oldest on the Continent.
The plant, operating since 1955 and is among the largest in France, has no nuclear reactor, but facilities for nuclear waste management, like the Sellafield plant in Britain.
This nuclear power plant operates in an area 30 km from Avignon and 80 km from the shores of the Mediterranean, characterized agriculture and tourism, which is why, if indeed leaked nuclear energy, are directly threatened the health of residents The local tourism industry and local economy.
France, which is the largest producer of electricity using atomic energy in Europe, currently has 58 nuclear reactors. After months before crash in Fukushima, Japan, the French government submitted recently to thoroughly stress test and 58 nuclear power stations in the country.
The factory Marcoul, which manages the company Socodei, a subsidiary of EDF, the largest energy company in France, processing radioactive materials from decommissioned nuclear plants, recycling plutonium from nuclear weapons to produce nuclear fuel "mixed oxide", or MOX.
The French Minister for Ecology Nathalie Kosiousko - Morize expected to go later today at the station to be updated.